Word: segregationism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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The actions took place in Washington, in Arkansas and in Virginia, but they pulsated across the U.S.-and across the world-as the school-integration problem once again moved into the spotlight. In the spotlight, too, were the school-integration drama's leading characters, two of them subjects of...
A stocky man, thin-lipped and blue-eyed, who orated in harsh, leonine gutturals, Strijdom was the son of a Dutch ostrich farmer in Cape of Good Hope Province. By turns a farmer, lawyer, newspaper publisher and banker, Strijdom was unswervingly a politician. In 1929 he was elected to represent...
Strijdom's program had simplicity: he hated the tie with the British Commonwealth, he hated "British-Jewish capitalism," he hated the threat to the 3,000,000 whites of South Africa of 11,000,000 slowly awakening blacks, coloreds (mixed bloods) and Indians. He was one of the first...
Sense of Place. In probing the South's ideals or the lack of them, Author Dabbs finds much to praise and does so with a refreshing absence of Southern rhetoric. He loves the South's piety toward the land ("Foot by foot, we have fought across it"), its...
The Wall Crumbles. In shoring up segregation, Author Dabbs suggests, the South is committing itself to another lost cause-that "of keeping a changeless social order in a changing world." Even while the South frets, fumes and fights its delaying actions, the wall of segregation is crumbling, Author Dabbs believes...